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[quote=Anonymous]I think providing alcohol to a bunch of kids just out of high school is nuts. You don’t know these kids. You don’t know their families or their genetic susceptibility to alcohol use disorder, which is highly correlated to age of first use. None of these kids have tolerance or much experience with alcohol and how it affects them. And the liability risk is enormous - enough to destroy the finances of most families if there’s a car crash or injury.

But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to let your own kid have beer or wine at a family dinner, just so they know what it is and what it does. Too often an unaware freshman in college will down an enormous amount of vodka and suffer all the consequences bc they didn’t know better. Parents do need to educate their children about alcohol especially since it remains so prevalent in society.

I have two boys in college. One doesn’t drink at all bc he’s a serious athlete and hates the impact of alcohol on his body. And the other might have a couple of beers when he’s out on the weekends, but will never overdo it bc he too hates the recovery and feeling like he’s poisoned himself. Compared to my generation, most college students are much more sensible about alcohol. And there really isn’t much pressure to drink yourself silly these days, at least not at the top 20 schools my kids go to. Getting wasted and being hungover is not the norm anymore.

But weed use is way up and parents need to address the risks of that too, especially how it pertains to brain development among adolescents.[/quote]

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